Chapter 706 Book and Painting Realm! Golden House in the Book_3

Even Jin Yuntang feels this way, so Ji Wujiang is even more unwilling.

It’s not that Ji Wujiang is reluctant to part with a first-class spiritual treasure; he simply feels uncomfortable making decisions for Chu Ming on such matters.

However, the other party is Xuanyuan Ye, the grandson of Marquis Cyan Simurgh, one of the nine marquises of the Celestial Veil Kingdom, the top genius of the Hanmo Confucius Temple, a Literary Cultivation from the Literary Residence, destined to become an existence of the Seventh Realm in the future.

A genius with such status and potential proposing a suggestion in front of so many people, regardless of how much the two may internally dislike it, they dare not openly refuse.

"Hehe, if the two of you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as acquiescence."

Xuanyuan Ye slightly curled his lips and returned to his seat.

"Winning two first-class spiritual treasures effortlessly... not bad..."

Before proposing the suggestion, he had already inquired about the temple priest Xuanyuan Huikong’s test situation, which was equivalent to knowing the result in advance, so he was brimming with confidence.

"..."

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Half the time has passed, inside the Confucius Temple.

"Vermilion Bird Universe has already found the name of the second sage, and it seems the name of the third sage is imminent."

"Lingx Long’s speed is not slow either, as she has also found the name of the second sage."

"Others... the fastest among them has only found the name of the first sage."

"It seems that those who will pass the temple test today have already been revealed."

Two temple teachers whispered.

After replying to Xuanyuan Ye’s message, the temple priest Xuanyuan Huikong looked on for a moment longer, and was about to leave.

Suddenly.

"Eh?"

The teacher on the left uttered a soft eh.

"What is this child trying to do?"

Both the right-sided teacher and the temple priest Xuanyuan Huikong turned their gazes.

Within the illusion, they saw Chu Ming, dressed in white scholar robes, walking up to the groove and closing his eyes slightly, infusing spiritual power into it.

Whoa——

The first and second grooves burst forth with white light simultaneously.

There are three grooves in total, each representing an answer.

Grooves bursting with white light indicate a correct answer has been found, but it won’t directly display the accurate answer.

This phase places everyone together, so anyone who makes a groove light up is bound to draw the attention of all.

Swish, swish, swish——

In the Book Wall Space, instantly six gazes looked over.

Vermilion Bird Universe’s eyes were vicious; after a glance, he continued immersing himself in the Book Wall.

"Hmph, only now did you find the name of the second sage, while I’m on the verge of finding the name of the third sage!"

"A frog in a well, yet dares to dream of entering the Confucius Temple!"

"..."

Lingx Long’s beautiful eyes sparkled, smiling at Chu Ming, and continued her search as well.

As for Wang Ru from Shun Kingdom, seeing the grooves light up, he could no longer suppress his panic and anxiety, which now surged onto his face, with even a hint of resentment in his gaze.

He felt dissatisfied, unwilling, and even envious!

...

Deep within the Confucius Temple.

"This child actually got the names of the first two sages right at once, strange... strange... how come he found them without even looking at the books with the sage names?"

The two temple teachers grew increasingly puzzled.

"It’s not that he didn’t look; it’s that we didn’t notice him."

The temple priest Xuanyuan Huikong manipulated the illusion, rewinding and locking onto the white-robed Chu Ming.

As he said, their attention was mostly fixated on Vermilion Bird Universe and Lingx Long earlier, and as Chu Ming initially seemed to be reading unrelated books, they hadn’t paid much attention after, save for occasional glances.

During those occasional moments, Chu Ming had actually found the books with the sage names.

"This child, if he could pass the second stage of the Book Page Maze in under an hour, how could his performance in the third stage be lacking!"

The temple priest Xuanyuan Huikong had an expression of having expected this.

"Lord Temple Priest speaks truth."

The two temple teachers agreed, though their downcast eyelids exchanged thoughts: Well, earlier you sure didn’t have that look...

Inside the Book Wall Space.

Chu Ming, after he infused two major answers, once more dived back into reading.

The test displayed far too many books: agricultural books, historical books, medicinal books, famous records, and more from all fields, which he hadn’t read before.

As fragments from the books fell into the Sea of Consciousness’ Book Collection Lake, it expanded swiftly.

Despite being only halfway through the test, the Lake’s area more than doubled.

The expansion of the Book Collection Lake brought astonishing benefits, accelerating reading speed, enhancing comprehension, increasing primordial consciousness, drastically improving the speed of condensing pure primordial Qi, and more.

Moreover, what amazed Chu Ming the most was that the fusion of [Reading] and [Calligraphy and Painting] in [Book and Painting Realm] seemed poised to advance.

As he read more books and the Book Collection Lake grew larger, this feeling became more apparent.

When the test reached its last quarter hour, he had already read over two thousand books.

Two thousand books only occupied twenty percent of the entire Book Wall, yet gave him deeper insights into Ancient Profound Western Continent, Celestial Veil Kingdom, and various secret tales and legends.

When Sword Gourd Spirit finished quickly scanning a book, and just shifted to look at the next.

[Book and Painting Realm: Golden House in the Book]

[Progress: 1/100]

[Effect: Grants original abilities of reading and calligraphy and painting, Golden House in the Book, a universe unto itself]

The Book and Painting Realm, dormant for long with no changes, finally ushered in a new transformation due to the infusion of so many books.

A universe unto itself?

Chu Ming’s heart thrilled, his heart spirit withdrew, examining the new effect ’Golden House in the Book’ of [Book and Painting Realm].

There was no movement in the Primordial Qi Mansion in his abdomen, nor did the Sea of Qi in his chest differ from before; this means ’Golden House in the Book’ doesn’t reside in the physical body.

Continuing his inspection, his heart spirit sunk into the Sea of Consciousness.

Apart from the sky filled with Book Collection fragments hovering over the Book Collection Lake, the other three lakes remained calm, and the celestial painting concealed the sky, as it usually did, leaving no visible difference.

"Could it be that I need to actively manifest the [Book and Painting Realm]?"

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